In an unprecedented move so early in the season, I am blowing up my power rankings. I have seen enough. Of course these rankings will all be completely different by mid-October.
1. Indiana - Blows out Howard. Curt Cignetti seems to be the only guy who has this whole NIL porral era figured out.
2. Ohio St - blows 20-Point lead in 4Q in loss at Texas. OSU looked like the #1 team for 3Q. What happened? But its hard to punish a team for a 1-point loss at Texas
3. UCLA - solid victories over Cal and SDSU
4. USC - 3 victories over G6 teams in non-conference. USC should have played Notre Dame instead.
5. Penn St - solid win over Temple in Philly. PSU has not looked great yet but has been good enough
6. Michigan - great defense in narrow win over Oklahoma at Michigan. Huh, defense (and Hail Mary's with 1 extra second on the clock) may be good enough for Michigan to win games this year.
7. Iowa - did not look great in narrow win over Iowa St in Iowa City. But Iowa found a way to pull out game in 4Q.
8. Maryland - September Maryland looking good with solid win at UConn. Of course MD automatically will fall to #17 on Oct 1.
9. Nebraska - blows out Bowling Green. Should have played somebody better in non-conference this year.
10. Washington - close win at home over Utah St . Wash is 2-0 but not looking good in early games
11. Illinois - loses close game at home to Duke. Well, Duke did win the ACC last year.
12. Oregon- loses at Oklahoma St to a team that just lost to Tulsa. Oregon barely beat Boise St the week before. Could Oregon be this year's Penn St?
13. Northwestern - they must have had the week off. NW hosts Colorado in week 3. A game not good enough for their new stadium I guess.
14. Purdue - loses in 2OT at home to Wake Forest. Maybe Purdue is not so bad this year?
15. Mich St - solid winat home over EMU. MSU might be better than this but they will have to earn it by beating somebody decent.
16. Wisconsin - solid win at home over FCS WIU
17. Minnesota - 25-point loss at home to Miss St. Minn should have stuck to thei normal cupcake non-conference schedule.
18. Rutgers - close loss at BC. But they still lost to UMass the week before.
